Issues with Office 2011 on my OSX 10.5.8 Air

I recently purchased and installed Office 2011 on my first generation macbook air. The operating system is OSX 10.5.8 and I re-installed that recently as well.
The issue I'm having revolves mostly around outlook, and that is that it STALLS like nobody's business. Mostly when I am composing emails, but at other times as well. The spinning color wheel is all I see. I've noticed some stalling in word, too, but not nearly as bad.
I recently ordered snow leopard and am hoping that upgrade might help. Does anyone have any suggestions? I use outlook for work and it's super frustrating to take 15 min to write an email....
PS, ran disk warrior and my computer doesn't seem to have any issues. I have 14.16 GB available. Thanks for any suggestions!

dwb wrote:
For what its worth, I consigned Outlook to the trash. It is a slow memory hogging unstable program on every computer I've tried using it on
That is even true on a Windows XP machine...this morning Outlook changed, on its own, an addressee on me from the one I had entered to another
Don't use Outlook on any of my Macs.

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